Citra (emulator)

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Citra
Developer(s) Citra team
Initial releaseApril 24, 2014;10 years ago (2014-04-24)
Final release
Nightly 2104 / 4 March 2024;7 months ago (2024-03-04)
Preview release
Canary 2798 / 4 March 2024;7 months ago (2024-03-04)
Repository https://github.com/citra-emu/citra at the Wayback Machine (archived March 2, 2024) github.com/PabloMK7/citra
Written in C++
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Platform
Available in22 languages [3]
Type Video game console emulator
License GPL-2.0-or-later [4]
Website https://citra-emu.org at the Wayback Machine (archived March 3, 2024)

Citra is a discontinued [5] free and open-source emulator of the handheld Nintendo 3DS for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. Citra's name is derived from CTR, which is the model name of the original 3DS. [1] Citra can run many homebrew games and commercial games. [6] As of August 2024, Citra has been forked in a GitHub repository by former Citra team member PabloMK7, and is currently continuing development. [7]

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Citra was first made available in 2014. The core team behind it went on to develop Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu in 2018. [8] Support for Citra by the Yuzu team was dropped on March 5, 2024, following a $2.4 million settlement reached with Nintendo of America. [9]

Development

Citra was initially created in April 2014. [10] The first commercial Nintendo 3DS game to be run by Citra was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D . [11] [12]

Citra has been able to emulate audio since May 21, 2016, [13] and has had a JIT compiler since September 15, 2016. [14] In November 2017, Citra announced networking support for the emulator. [15] The networking support emulates the 3DS's local Wi-Fi, which originally made it possible to play over local networks. Additionally, Citra allows the networking to be compatible with other users anywhere. [1] In April 2020, the Citra Team announced compatibility with New Nintendo 3DS games and support for save states, [16] [17] [18] and in May 2020, they announced a version of Citra for Android. [19] [20] The console's Home Menu was bootable from March 2023. [21] In September 2023, support for Vulkan was added as an experimental alternative to OpenGL. [22] [23] In March 2024, Nintendo and Yuzu developer Tropic Haze LLC reached a settlement prompting Tropic Haze to shut down operations for Yuzu. Additionally, Tropic Haze agreed to surrender or cease working on any project that involved Nintendo's copyrighted properties, and as a result support for Citra was dropped by the developers. [24] [25]

System requirements
Requirements
Personal Computer [1]
Operating system
CPU x86-64 CPUSingle Core Performance > 1,800 on Passmark
Graphics hardware
Android [2]
Operating systemAndroid 8.0 (64-bit)
CPU AArch64 Snapdragon 835 or better
Graphics hardware

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